Clarion 1944-06-02 Vol 23 No 11

THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XXIII — No. 11
BETHEL INSTITUTE, St. Paul, Minnesota June 2, 1944
The Commencement at Central Ends
Seminary Has
Summer School
Bethel Theological Seminary
will conduct a summer school be-ginning
Tuesday, June 13. This
will provide an accelerated pro-gram
for ministerial students to
fulfill the requirement for defer-ment
and will last for nine weeks.
The following courses are offer-ed:
Study of the Epistle to the
Hebrews; A study of the Epistle
to the Romans; A study of Se-lected
Psalms; A study of the
Principles of Bible Interpretation;
A study of the History of the
Swedish Baptists.
The courses offered will credit
the student with eight semester
hours applicable to his Seminary
work. The school will be conduct-ed
Tuesday to Friday, with classes
from eight o'clock in the morning
to twelve-ten noon.
Interested persons are asked to
write—Karl J. Karlson, Dean.
All-School
Picnic at Phalen
The All-School picnic was held
on May 30, Memorial Day, at Pha-len
Park. Students from both the
College and Seminary went to the
park at 10:30 Tuesday morning by
chartered street-car, where Dana
Larson led the group in a series of
typical "Sunday School picnic"
games—relays, races and contests.
Following lunch, which was
served by the girls' dormitory, a
baseball game was played between
students from the Western United
States and students from the East-
Fall Curriculum
Extended
Three new one-semester courses
will be added to Bethel's curri-culum
next fall. Rev. Swan Eng-wall,
of Chicago is joining the fa-culty
and will teach human geo-graphy,
which will include study
of climate, economic advantages
such as mines, navigations, and
industry which causes people to
settle in certain parts of the coun-try.
Rev. Engwall will also teach one
semester of sociology and one se-mester
of rural sociology besides
a study of Acts and the Epistles.
American government in politics
is also being added to the program
and will be taught by Professor
C. E. Carlson.
Miss Betty Danielson is at-tempting
to arrange her fall pro-gram
at the University of Minne-sota
so as to be able to take over
all the girls' gym classes.
As yet no one has been secured
to fill the vacancy which will be
left by Miss Platts.
ern United States. Both men and
women participated.
After the East-West game, the
Seminary and College men fought
for top baseball honors.
Supper was served by the Boys'
Boarding Club. The picnic ended
with choruses and testimonies
around the camp fire.
The Freshman were in charge of
the publicity for the picnic, the
Sophomores arranged transporta-tion,
the Juniors planned the food,
the Middlemen fixed up the pro-gram,
and the Seniors just went
along and had a good time.
School Year
Concluding the graduation activ-ities
of Bethel Junior College and
Seminary, Commencement service
will be held this evening at 8
o'clock at Central Baptist Church.
St. Paul. Valedictory addresses
were presented by Carol Rexion of
the College and Dale Bjork of the
Seminary.
Theodore W. Anderson, presi-dent
of the Evangelical Mission
Churches of America and former
head of Minnehaha Academy will
present the commencement speech.
The program has been planned as
follows:
CLASS DAY
Another highlight of Graduation
Week, Class Day, has just conclud-ed
in the College Chapel for the
purpose of presenting scholarships
and awards for the past year.
Students honored at this time
were:
Scholarships
Bethel Alumni Association
Scholarships:
1. Twenty-five dollars to Arleth
Brask, College.
2. Thirty-five dollars to Alma
Iblings, College.
3. Twenty-five dollars to Robert
Norstrom, Seminary .
4. Thirty-five dollars to Cory
Grotheim, Seminary.
Swedberg Memorial Scholarship:
Twenty-five dollars, given by
the Baptist Church at Ellison Bay,
Wisconsin, to Stanley Paulson.
Samuel Fletcher Kerfoot Scholar-ship
in Memoriam,
By Harold L. Kerfoot, son of Dr.
Samuel Fletcher Kerfoot, fifty
dollars, to Lois Thomas.
Dr. C. G. Emanuel Merit Scholar.
ship,
Fifty dollars, to Clarence Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold W. Peterson
Annual Scholarship,
Fifty dollars, to Walfred Peter-son.
Boston Young People's Society
Scholarship,
Fifty dollars, to Gladys Biller.
Friend's Encouragement Scholar-ship,
Fifty dollars, to Kiyoo Shimatsu.
On Sunday, May 28, the Baccal-aureate
was held at Bethany Bap-tist
Church, Minneapolis at which
time Rev. William Turnwall of
Duluth spoke on, "Adjusting the
Compass."
Students Leave
For Summers
W ork
Leaving Saturday, June 3, Muar-ice
Lundh and Clarence Sahlin
will drive the State Young People's
Trailer for points north to conduct
their summer's work. State mis-sionary
Al Bergfalk is going along
to start them off.
With one week off for the sum-mer
assembly at Alexandria and
probably a week at the Jessie Lake
Assembly, the men are intending
to conduct services at Sandy Lake,
Farris, Waskish, Rako, and prob-ably
Battle River. Besides cook-ing
their own meals and making
their own beds, Clarence and
Maurice will hold Bible School
both in the morning and in the
afternoon, and services each even-ing.
Taking the Conference Trailer,
Wilbur Ericson and William Pet-erson
are starting out in Duluth
June 11 with a Young People's
Rally at Temple Baptist where
Bill is to speak.
The following Tuesday they are
to be at Roseau, Minnesota for a
short time.
They expect to attend summer
Bible camps and spend some time
in the Red River Valley and Lake
of the Woods districts. They also
intend to reach up into Canada for
a few weeks.
Coast to Coast
with Bethelites
A number of girls will be going
out into Bible School work this
summer. Those who will make the
longest trips are Violet Carlson
and Gladys Biller, going East to
New York, Connecticut, and New
Jersey; Helen Soder and Grace
Swanson to Bremerton and Se-attle,
Washington where work
among defense childern is being
carried on. Rose Challberg and
Betty Olson plan to go to Ogema,
Wisconsin and Albert Lea, Minne-sota;
Lois Thomas and Esther
Ingebretson to Brainerd and Fer-gus
Falls; Priscilla Grebe and
Gretchen Clausen, Red Wing and
Haste; Arleth Brask and Virginia
Anderson, Cokato and Prospect
Park, Minneapolis, Fredrick, Wis-consin
and Omaha, Nebraska;
Grace Byland, Trade Lake, Grants-burg
and Milltown, Wisconsin.
Others who plan to teach are
Mabel Anderson, Maxine Olson,
Lilly Johnson, Hazel Nelson, Betty
Hoff, Kay Darling, Arlene Peter-son,
and Evelyn Sundberg.
Jane Larson will be Sunday
School missionary at Youngstown,
Ohio and Alma Iblings will con-tinue
her work at Spring Lake
Park. Gloria Mitchell is planning
to teach at St. Louis Park and
Hibbing.
McClure Sums Up Mission Year
At its final meeting of the year Wednesday, May 10, the Missionary
Band elected officers for the coming year. They are president, Cecil
Lindblom; vice president, Harris Youngquist; secretary, Priscilla Grebe;
treasurer, Joel Anderson.
As a summary of its last year's work, here is a letter from Harold
McClure. its last president:
"About two years ago a man and his wife kneeled in prayer. A
great burden was resting upon them. Having been appointed to the
task of caring for a school in Jorhat, Assam, they were faithfully min-istering
to those under their instruction. There were students coming
in increasing numbers. The burden was, "How shall we care for them?
—The prayer—" Lord, lay it upon the heart of someone to care for
this need." Thousands of miles away, God began working in the hearts
of the faculty and student body of Bethel College.
"This year has past. The evidence of the Lord's working is over
$650 that has come in for the "Bethel in Jorhat" project. May the school
in Assam be blessed and the school in St. Paul be set aflame with the
spirit of an undying passion for the unsaved in every land.
"In the past year one 'matter has disturbed the officers of the
Missionary Band. It is the matter of the membership of the Missionary
Band. Since every Christian should be a missionary and since the
project is "Our Bethel in Jorhat" why not revise the constitution to in-clude
in the membership the whole faculty and student body of Bethel?
"May the barometer of Bethel's missionary zeal continue to rise
until every kindred, tribe, and tongue have been told of Jesus."
THE BETHEL CLARION
A bi-weekly campus newspaper.
BETHEL INSTITUTE
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EDITORIAL POLICY
1. To maintain and promote the Christian principles of Bethel
Institute.
2. To promote scholarship.
3. To foster more school spirit.
4. To establish a better understanding among the students.
Editor-in-chief Barbara Edson
Associate Editor Carol Rexion
Feature Editor Walfred Peterson
Sports Editor Robert Bergerud
Reporters Gloria Anderson, Dorothy Benson, Irene
Benson, Harold Carlson, Carlton Christenson,
Lucille Collin, Joyce Gilbert, Betty Hoff, Esther
Ingebretson, Marian Larsen, Hazel Nelson, F.
Robert Otto, Janet Rye, Kiyoo Shimatsu, Marianne
Schouweiler, Lorna Swanson, Evelyn Sundberg.
Circulation Norma Seaquist
Typist Dorothy Dahlman
Business Manager Philip Johnson
Editorial Advisor Miss Enid Platts
Business Advisor Dean Emery Johnson
OUQ INQUIQING
PePOQTG2
By Marianne Schouweiler
Question: What is the most profit-able
lesson you've learned this
year at Bethel?
Lorene Janssen: To have an open
mind and an even temper.
Bill Petersen: Say "no" to 90%
of the things people ask you.
Lorna Swanson: It doesn't pay to
study history because you don't
remember any of it anyway.
Julie Ann Erickson: To get up
when the 6:30 bell rings.
Phyllis Gustafson: That it's im-possible
for me to lose weight.
Herb McDonald: The Navy needs
more fliers.
Janet Rye: That experience was
my best teacher (and how!)
Lily Johnson: Live one day at a
time—in the Lord's will.
Phyllis Johnson: The inter-rela-tionship
of all friends of know-ledge
and their relationship to
life.
Howie Olson: Keep my mouth
shut to keep out of trouble.
Russell Taft: I have come to see
more clearly that, if we have the
conviction that we are follow-ing
the course on which the
Lord started us, there is no
problem so great that we are
justified in giving up before we
tackle it—then the way through
surely appears.
Evelyn Sundberg: There's power
in prayer.
Birdell Emmel: Learning to meet
people on their own ground of
interest.
Seminary Meditation
From Here,
Where?
by Melvin Swanson
"Where Do We Go From Here?"
was the title of an address given
to a graduating class by Dr. W. F.
Widen some years ago. AS I think
of leaving Bethel, I am thinking
of the difference there must be be-tween
the forward look of one who
is a follower of the Master and
one who is not. We who are leav_
ing Bethel permanently this spring
do so with some definite feelings
—the kind that seem to force
themselves up into ones throat
and make it hard to swallow. How-ever,
for the Christian the future
is already taken care of, though
he himself does not know much of
God's plan for him. The question
then, for us is not so much where
we are to be next year at this
time, but rather of whether we
have the simple, practical faith
willingness to follow our Guide,
who knows and provides the very
best for us.
Oxenham expresses the thought
of the forward-looking Christian in
the following lines:
"Not for a single day
Can I discern the way;
But this I know,
Who gives the day
Will show the way,
So I securely go."
The Lord has been marvelously
good to me and to all of us at
Bethel this year, yet I am eagerly
anticipating the future as a ser-vant
of a might, wonderful, and
faithful Lord.
Bob Hails: Body exercise profit-eth
little; mental exercise pro-eth
much.
Edna Sahl: The necessity of liv-ing
a consistent Christian life
and the need of personal devo-tions.
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It will be an older campus—that is, a campus with a larger student-age
span and a greater proportion of men and women past twenty. The
smooth-cheeked, cherubic freshmen will be there in his customary
numbers, but his classmates will be veterans whose insights and out-look
have been matured and sometimes warped by Bataan and Guadal-calan,
by Tarawa and Kwajalein and Bizerte and Salerno. There will
be those, too, whose war experiences bound them to a factory bench,
returning to college with a laborer's hands and a self-conscious, twisted
smile for the hour when the ex-soldier and the new freshman ask for
their list of battle honors.
The physically disabled are no strangers to the American campus,
but in reconstruction days we are warned that this minority will swell
in size. We must learn to accept disability and disfigurement without
the second glance or the shudder of pity.
It will be a campus of wide divergences or opinions and of internal
strain. There will be those returning service men who will support the
freshman in his demand for an "ante bellum campus" with every effort
possible made to wipe away the disruptions of the war. "Don't let the
campus change—not in a single aspect:—" many a service man has
written with postalgiai for his pen-pot.
It is likely, however, that this group will not long remain united.
There will be those whose nostalgic longings are satisfied by the return,
and there will be those more common individuals who will find that
anticipation out-ran reality and that the campus evenif perfectly restor-ed
according to the pattern of 1939-40 cannot be the haven of bliss ex-pected.
A new leaven will be on every campus in the veteran who has
grown up under the impact of war. He was half-boy, half man when he
left, but now he is all-man. He has come to value learning. War on
the battle front or the factory line has shown him the necessity of
education, and he is back on his campus to get it. If he is rebel-born,
he will shout his disaffection for the trivialities and the slow-paced pro-cession
of some of our classroom activities, and the side-shows of the
extra-curricular endeavors. If his rebellion is inarticulate, he will stew
and then conform or leave; but in any case, his rebellion will have its
effect.
Here are some of the questions bound to rise on the American
campus of reconstruction days. Many a veteran who has not finished
high school will come knocking at the college gates. Shall he be ad-mitted
contrary to the conventional ruling? Shall he be forced to make
up the work which he is lacking from the high school curriculum? Many
a veteran will return vocational-minded. He will want a job, the best
one in his power to carry, and he will want immediate training for that
immediate job. There are vocational schools and training institutes for
these purposes, but without any doubt the pressure on the liberal arts
college to offer a larger vocational curriculum will be enormous.
Moreover, the orthodox pace of the college is not rapid. With the
geologist's sense of time, the educator does not move quickly—a year to
a course, thirty hours to a major, four years to a diploma. But the
veteran will be in a hurry. He is racing against lost time. ' He will
want short cuts and quick courses. Too, he will be, in all probability,
impatient with the theoretical, the historical, the analytical. Such
courses as he is having in the service are largely courses in specific
skills—two days of intensive training for mastering the fifty-calibre,
anti-aircraft gun. Such courses do not burden him with the history
of gunnery, going back to that uncertain date when gunpowder was
first used. "Leave out the theory, prof, and come on to today's busi-ness."
The campus of reconstruction days will make new demands for
freshened and reinvigorated teaching. Moreover, that campus will
most succeed which is most wisely equipped to do the best and most
thorough job in human counselling. For counselling will be an ab-solute
necessity, not only for the soldier and sailor attempting to re-adjust
himself to civilian life, but for the high school senior facing
a quite different day than that for which his older brother prepared
himself. Wise teaching in the classroom alone will not be enough. It
will be through the personal relations of the instructor and the student
—relations both formal and informal—that the re-adjustments of recon-struction
can be best accomplished. That counselling must begin the
day the student applies for admission and end—even then only tempor-arily—
on the day when the college helps him to find a job. And in
between there will be occasions for all manners and kinds of wise,
friendly counselling—academic, personal, financial, marital, vocational,
and religious.
It will not be an easy campus, the campus of reconstruction days,
for either the teacher or the administrator. But no campus in the en-tire
history of American \education will carry a larger measure of op'
portunity for the making of strong men and women, intelligent, emotion-ally
sturdy, conscious of their responsibility, and equipped with deep
kind of men which the world will rightly demand from the college for
leadership in that period of world reconstruction.
College Reconstruction
From the "At Dennison" by Kenneth Irving Brown, president
of Dennison University, Granville, Ohio.
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Q4cakteil" The Night of May 19th
by Marianne Schouweiler
J. S. What does it stand for? Those are my kid brother's initials,
but to Bethel students it means the formal banquet given each year by
the Freshman class in honor of the Sophomores.
If you have not witnessed the ecstatic excitement at the Girls'
Dorm from 4:30 on as the florists delivered their gray boxes, as some-one
breaks their nicest fingernail, as the phone rings violently, and as
Peggy runs back and forth on second floor wailing, "'When Paulson
comes, my flowers come and not before!" you have missed at
least half the thrill of the occasion.
The nicest part was to walk down the front stairs and be greeted
by a dashing young man. The hardest part was to pin on his bouton-iere.
The part that was most fun was seeing all the girls looking so
pretty and the fellows so proud. The most surprising thing was seeing
all the fellows with close haircuts. The most annoying thing was having
to get in by midnight. The funniest thing was seeing Stan Paulson cut
a button off his vest for each point in Mr. Christenson's address. Our
proudest moments were in seeing the fine job Kay did as M. C.
And did you see the two engaged girls whose fiances are overseas
with the boys' miniatures beside them?
The program certainly wouldn't have been complete without the
. magician's' assistant from Fergus Falls and the return of Kay's dollar.
(Do you know how he did it?)
After the banquet about fifteen couples went to the Y.M.C.A. where
the boys had rented a lounge and put on an impromptu program. The
master of ceremonies changed his tie practically unnoticed between
each act, and "Knop" faithfully blundered each gag. "Muggs" Swanson
was the lone girl on the program, and "The Future Deacons of the
First Baptist Church of Fergus Falls" portrayed "Two Men and an
Overcoat." (Too bAd they don't have Bergerud in Male Chorus.
Although the Freshmen were inexperienced and thus didn't pick a
full moon, the sky was clear. The wind didn't cooperate with the tra-ditional
plans of canoeing on Phalen, but it was mighty nice at Minne-haha
Falls. Taken as a whole and including the banquet theme, one
Plait ioit
In questioning of the graduates
as to their plans for the future,
it was found that most of them
have been rather indefinite as to
their decisions. However, those
in the Seminary have their
churches picked out and some of
them, their wives. A few of the
Seminary students are going out
in trailers if the draft board per-mits.
Among the college graduates,
many are going 'on to the Univ.
Several of the girls are going in
for Nurse's training and one into
the Marine Corps. Most of the boys
are planning on attending the
Seminary next fall and due to
draft board rulings may begin this
summer.
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"Hush! Hush! Don't say a
word! He's coming down the
stairs." The door opens and
everyone heartily sings "Congratu-lations
to you. Congratulations—s
—s—ah" as in walks Roger
Youngquist. It was not until after
a few fakes that the real persons
arrived for the surprise-shower.
Gladys Peterson and Jack Berg-eson
have definitely decided as to
the last rites, and so appropriately
the Seminary students and teach-ers
decided to put on a party. It
was to be a surprise to both
though Gladys was informed of a
"birthday party" for Knobby. This
intrigue worked, and cooperation
was beautiful, almost too good.
She inviegled Knobby into a walk
after supper to allow time for de-corations
at the boarding club but
she had difficulty in concluding it.
In the meantime things were
progressing with great fervor at
the Seminary. The boys dressed
up, decorations were made, food
was prepared and finally the
guests arrived,—and waited.—The
8:00 starting time drew on to 8:45
before the guests arrived.
Knobby finally left Blombergs
and took Gladys home where Ell-wood
and Maurice picked her up
(unknown to Knobby) and brought
her to the Seminary. She was hid-den
and when Knobby was brought
downstairs by a false pretense she
joined him as he entered the din-ing
hall.
It was a complete surprise to
both and a great deal of enjoy-ment
for the spectators.
The program then proceeded,
under the direction of Francis Mc-
Olash, which consisted of a var-iety
of talents. There were songs
by the male quartet, some amus-ing
poetry by Bob Peterson, a
stunt by Bob Bergerud and Gene
Johnson and some puns by Al
Bergfalk, Dr. Karlson and none
other than Maxine Olson.
Some gifts were presented and
then to end things there, some re-freshments
served.
The moral to this, story—"Go
thou and do Likewise."
Events have taken place fast
and furiously this past month.
First there was the Sem Banquet,
and the girls who attended sure
looked their best that night. What
preparation! "Are my flowers
pinned on straight," said Ruthie
Rask?" "Is my hair combed o.k.?"
asked Janie Larson. And so it
went until all the gals were ready
to go to the banquet, and have
a starlight of an evening.
Then, in the same week came
the Alumni Banquet. The girls
who served as waitresses this
night turned "Dutch" in the cute
little outfits Alice Anderson had
made for them. Charlotte Sandin
and Miriam Quarnstrom were vis-itors
in the dormitory. "Corny,"
as she is called by her pals, has
a new flashy diamond on the third
finger, left hand! In case you
don't know, Earl Johnson is the
lucky fellow.
The third and final banquet of
the year came with the J. S. on
May 19. The dorm was surely in
one grand uproar for this occa-sion.
Gloria Anderson was espec-ially
happy that night for that ex-tra
special someone (Doug Arm-strom)
was home on a furlough.
You sure picked the right time,
Doug!
Now that all this excitement has
passed, the dorm has taken on a
quiet atmosphere. Reason? Final
examinations are here again, and
with them it means that school is
nearly over. Already students are
looking back on happenings of the
year, and the other night while
Alice Olson and Eunice Anderson
were visiting the dorm, and talk-ing
about past events, your report-er
couldn't help but pass a certain
story on to you, knowing that it
would never get in SEM SNAT-CHES,
for the story is about Har-old
Carlson. Harold has fifty . pairs
of socks. First of all he wears
the first twenty-five pair, and then
takes time out to wash them while
he wears the other twenty-five
pair. Now Harold thought that
washing twenty-five pairs of socks
was quite a job, and to get done in
the least possible time, he decided
to put all the socks in the water
together. Well, they ran! "Whew,"
said Harold, "they even run with-out,
feet."
By the way, do you know who
"Gunny-sack" is?
Barbara Edson is taking advant-age
of the nice weather, and can
regularly be seen enjoying that
evening walk with a certain red-head.
Eunice Wood and Betty., Nelson
appreciate the breath of spring too,
and took time out one day last
week for a dip in "-Lake Phalen.
Many dormitory gals have also
been getting their morning exer-cise
on the campus tennis court.
The dormitory girls would like
to take this opportunity to wish
the graduating dorm girls God-speed
and the best of luck in the
new fields that lie ahead. We'll
miss you next year, and don't for-get
we want you to come back and
visit us. Also we say, a hearty
thank you to Mrs. Nylof, our
housemother, and Miss Johnson,
our cook.
leirai4]
this noon just as the "pay-day
whistle" blew I was told someone
was looking for me i turned a-round
and you could have knock-ed
me over with a matrix in walk-ed
Jimmy Nyquist! as you may
or may not know he's in an in-fantry
outfit, has been here for
2 months when A St. P. folded
he was transferred here from
Kansas or some such place
we stuck together like cockle-burrs
on sheeps wool for three
hours while i asked him every
question under the sun he told
me what he knew about the army
poor boy we never had the privil-ege
of maneuvering in dear old
louisiana nor has he tasted oklaho-ma
heat and dust where it never
gets over 120 degrees in the shade
and there is no shade.
so the upshot of it all is that
jimmy threatens to share his clar-ion
with me and no doubt we will
meet no little and quite some as
he lives only a few blocks hence
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by Harold Carlson
Well, well, another school year
is over. The Seniors have had
their party (ask Paulson) and also
their Systematic Theology exam,
so they are all happy.
It seems that the last week of
school prompts many different
actions. Take for example, Bill
H a ri n g's haircut.
Poor Gene and Bergie! They
came home one night all tired
out, crawled in between the
sheets Uncanny, wasn't it?
Stan Yamashita (Johnson) has
left our fellowship for the Army
life. We're going to miss this
ping pong and also "jiu jitsu" ex-pert.
God bless you, wherever
you go, Stan•.
"This is just like California," ex-claimed
Paul Nagano, as° he was
studying his Old Testamnet Proph-ecy
on the Seminary roof. Yes,
we're sure ritzy around here. Why,
Lloyd Sprecher even serves cold
refreshments every afternoon to
the sun bathers on the roof.
You heard about the Seniors be-ing
"dunked" recently. Well, some
of the Freshmen were "doused"
even more recently. Walking out
of the back door right after lunch
is a dangerous thing to do during
the last week of school. Water,
when thrown from the roof or an
upstairs window seems to have a
tendency to fall towards the
ground. (Ask Wes Seaquist or
Phil Johnson).
It's been a grand and inspira-tional
year for all of us. Let us
remember one another in prayer
as we go out in the Lord's work.
Fent Snatches
by Mabel Anderson
might say it was a ringing success.
Sem Snatches
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Sports
Question
by Bergie
In What Way Do You Think that
Sport Activities Can be Improved
in Future Years?
Kay Shimatsu:—I would like to
see more equipment in the gym
for gym classes—mats for
wrestling, bars, weights for lift-ing.
Marriane S.—A basketball for the
girls; everytime we want to
play, we have to go and ask
the fellows for a ball, or use an
old "punkin."
C. E.—An intensified program with
as many of the students taking
part in sports that will stay with
them throughout life. A good
tennis court would be a help
toward this, instruction in golf
and tennis early in the fall and
again in the spring.
DoDo B.—School spirit—backing
for all the activities.
Knobby—More emphasis on a de-finite
program of intermural
sports. Include all the students.
Phyl. G.—An organized schedule of
basketball and baseball games
with a little pre-game publicity.
Erick—MORE OF EVERYTHING!
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Bethel "B's"
Awarded
The Bethel "B" was presented
today to the following for a year's
competition in Basketball during
the 1943-44 season: Capt. Bob
Hails, Gordon Thompson, Bob Ot-to,
Maurice Lundh, Clarence Sah-lin,
Carleton Christianson, and
Bill Peterson.
Gene Johnson and Bob Bergerud
received sweaters, each having
earned three letters in basketball
and one in baseball and tennis.
Willis Wessman was awarded a
speater for three years of baseball
and a year of basketball and ten-nis.
Baseball letters also go to Con-well
Anderson, Elwo-od Anderson,
Birdell Emmel, Wilbur Haring, Ce-cil
Lindblom, Wes Lindblom, Bill
Peterson, Clarence Sahlin, Harris
Youngquist, and Roger Young-quist.
This is the closing of the sports
activities for this year. The fel-lows
have worked hard and have
earned their awards.—Nice Going,
Boys'
Larson, Youngquist
Shuffle Board Champs
Dana Larson and Roger Young-quist
were crowned champions of
shuffleboard tournament staged on
the Seminary gymnasium. They
defeated Orville Birch and Arne
Gustafson for the championship.
This is Bethel's first contest of
its kind and we certainly hope it
shall continue on each year.
Wally Peterson defeated Howie
Olson 4-2 in the championship
game in ping gong.
The hand ball tournament has
only reached the semi-final with
Gunnar Hoglund, Dale Bjork, Kay
Shimatsu and Clarence Sahlin still
in the running. (See you next
year! )
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nine on the short end of an 11-0
score. Wes. Lindblom was the
winning pitcher, giving up only
four hits.
The trip, which was in one case
a mission of comforting the bed-ridden,
was enjoyed very much by
all. It was also very evident that
the nursing profession still at-tracts
W. Wessman. Coach "Hoke"
had a hard time keeping his be-longings
together, but outside of
that everything went 0. K.!
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Early Morning
Breakfast 'at Como
The fireplace at Como Park was
the scene of three Bethel break-fasts
during the last week of
school.
The Sophomore Breakfast was
sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Carlson on Wednesday, the 24th
at 7:00 A. M. We sophs were well
satisfied with the ham and eggs
fried by C. E.," says Arlene Peter-son.
The Arian Chorus had their last
get-together of the year at the
same fireplace on the following
morning at 6:45 a. m. Pancakes
and bacon was on the menu, pre-pared
by Marie Greene. Dorothy
Dahlman, president of the Chorus
for next year, read devotions.
The Christian Workers Group
had their breakfast on Wednesday
the 31st. The members of C.W.C.
gathered at Como Park at 6:30 for
a feed of bacon and eggs.
As one student has put it.
"These breakfasts not only helped
us wake up on exam mornings, i
but also helped us furnish some
of the fellowship we've been hear-ing
so much of this year."
Indians Journey
To Mankato
The Bethel baseball team took
a trip, the only one of the season,
to Mankato and New Ulm on the
weekend of the 29th and 30th of
April. Friday afternoon they play-ed
Bethany College. Backing Bill
Peterson with a sixteen run as-sault,
the Indians clubbed their op-ponents
into a 16-5 submission.
Molstad pitched for Bethany. Gust-afson
and C. Anderson hit curcuit
clouts for the winners.
Saturday afternoon saw the In-dians
again the victors, with Lu-

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THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XXIII — No. 11
BETHEL INSTITUTE, St. Paul, Minnesota June 2, 1944
The Commencement at Central Ends
Seminary Has
Summer School
Bethel Theological Seminary
will conduct a summer school be-ginning
Tuesday, June 13. This
will provide an accelerated pro-gram
for ministerial students to
fulfill the requirement for defer-ment
and will last for nine weeks.
The following courses are offer-ed:
Study of the Epistle to the
Hebrews; A study of the Epistle
to the Romans; A study of Se-lected
Psalms; A study of the
Principles of Bible Interpretation;
A study of the History of the
Swedish Baptists.
The courses offered will credit
the student with eight semester
hours applicable to his Seminary
work. The school will be conduct-ed
Tuesday to Friday, with classes
from eight o'clock in the morning
to twelve-ten noon.
Interested persons are asked to
write—Karl J. Karlson, Dean.
All-School
Picnic at Phalen
The All-School picnic was held
on May 30, Memorial Day, at Pha-len
Park. Students from both the
College and Seminary went to the
park at 10:30 Tuesday morning by
chartered street-car, where Dana
Larson led the group in a series of
typical "Sunday School picnic"
games—relays, races and contests.
Following lunch, which was
served by the girls' dormitory, a
baseball game was played between
students from the Western United
States and students from the East-
Fall Curriculum
Extended
Three new one-semester courses
will be added to Bethel's curri-culum
next fall. Rev. Swan Eng-wall,
of Chicago is joining the fa-culty
and will teach human geo-graphy,
which will include study
of climate, economic advantages
such as mines, navigations, and
industry which causes people to
settle in certain parts of the coun-try.
Rev. Engwall will also teach one
semester of sociology and one se-mester
of rural sociology besides
a study of Acts and the Epistles.
American government in politics
is also being added to the program
and will be taught by Professor
C. E. Carlson.
Miss Betty Danielson is at-tempting
to arrange her fall pro-gram
at the University of Minne-sota
so as to be able to take over
all the girls' gym classes.
As yet no one has been secured
to fill the vacancy which will be
left by Miss Platts.
ern United States. Both men and
women participated.
After the East-West game, the
Seminary and College men fought
for top baseball honors.
Supper was served by the Boys'
Boarding Club. The picnic ended
with choruses and testimonies
around the camp fire.
The Freshman were in charge of
the publicity for the picnic, the
Sophomores arranged transporta-tion,
the Juniors planned the food,
the Middlemen fixed up the pro-gram,
and the Seniors just went
along and had a good time.
School Year
Concluding the graduation activ-ities
of Bethel Junior College and
Seminary, Commencement service
will be held this evening at 8
o'clock at Central Baptist Church.
St. Paul. Valedictory addresses
were presented by Carol Rexion of
the College and Dale Bjork of the
Seminary.
Theodore W. Anderson, presi-dent
of the Evangelical Mission
Churches of America and former
head of Minnehaha Academy will
present the commencement speech.
The program has been planned as
follows:
CLASS DAY
Another highlight of Graduation
Week, Class Day, has just conclud-ed
in the College Chapel for the
purpose of presenting scholarships
and awards for the past year.
Students honored at this time
were:
Scholarships
Bethel Alumni Association
Scholarships:
1. Twenty-five dollars to Arleth
Brask, College.
2. Thirty-five dollars to Alma
Iblings, College.
3. Twenty-five dollars to Robert
Norstrom, Seminary .
4. Thirty-five dollars to Cory
Grotheim, Seminary.
Swedberg Memorial Scholarship:
Twenty-five dollars, given by
the Baptist Church at Ellison Bay,
Wisconsin, to Stanley Paulson.
Samuel Fletcher Kerfoot Scholar-ship
in Memoriam,
By Harold L. Kerfoot, son of Dr.
Samuel Fletcher Kerfoot, fifty
dollars, to Lois Thomas.
Dr. C. G. Emanuel Merit Scholar.
ship,
Fifty dollars, to Clarence Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold W. Peterson
Annual Scholarship,
Fifty dollars, to Walfred Peter-son.
Boston Young People's Society
Scholarship,
Fifty dollars, to Gladys Biller.
Friend's Encouragement Scholar-ship,
Fifty dollars, to Kiyoo Shimatsu.
On Sunday, May 28, the Baccal-aureate
was held at Bethany Bap-tist
Church, Minneapolis at which
time Rev. William Turnwall of
Duluth spoke on, "Adjusting the
Compass."
Students Leave
For Summers
W ork
Leaving Saturday, June 3, Muar-ice
Lundh and Clarence Sahlin
will drive the State Young People's
Trailer for points north to conduct
their summer's work. State mis-sionary
Al Bergfalk is going along
to start them off.
With one week off for the sum-mer
assembly at Alexandria and
probably a week at the Jessie Lake
Assembly, the men are intending
to conduct services at Sandy Lake,
Farris, Waskish, Rako, and prob-ably
Battle River. Besides cook-ing
their own meals and making
their own beds, Clarence and
Maurice will hold Bible School
both in the morning and in the
afternoon, and services each even-ing.
Taking the Conference Trailer,
Wilbur Ericson and William Pet-erson
are starting out in Duluth
June 11 with a Young People's
Rally at Temple Baptist where
Bill is to speak.
The following Tuesday they are
to be at Roseau, Minnesota for a
short time.
They expect to attend summer
Bible camps and spend some time
in the Red River Valley and Lake
of the Woods districts. They also
intend to reach up into Canada for
a few weeks.
Coast to Coast
with Bethelites
A number of girls will be going
out into Bible School work this
summer. Those who will make the
longest trips are Violet Carlson
and Gladys Biller, going East to
New York, Connecticut, and New
Jersey; Helen Soder and Grace
Swanson to Bremerton and Se-attle,
Washington where work
among defense childern is being
carried on. Rose Challberg and
Betty Olson plan to go to Ogema,
Wisconsin and Albert Lea, Minne-sota;
Lois Thomas and Esther
Ingebretson to Brainerd and Fer-gus
Falls; Priscilla Grebe and
Gretchen Clausen, Red Wing and
Haste; Arleth Brask and Virginia
Anderson, Cokato and Prospect
Park, Minneapolis, Fredrick, Wis-consin
and Omaha, Nebraska;
Grace Byland, Trade Lake, Grants-burg
and Milltown, Wisconsin.
Others who plan to teach are
Mabel Anderson, Maxine Olson,
Lilly Johnson, Hazel Nelson, Betty
Hoff, Kay Darling, Arlene Peter-son,
and Evelyn Sundberg.
Jane Larson will be Sunday
School missionary at Youngstown,
Ohio and Alma Iblings will con-tinue
her work at Spring Lake
Park. Gloria Mitchell is planning
to teach at St. Louis Park and
Hibbing.
McClure Sums Up Mission Year
At its final meeting of the year Wednesday, May 10, the Missionary
Band elected officers for the coming year. They are president, Cecil
Lindblom; vice president, Harris Youngquist; secretary, Priscilla Grebe;
treasurer, Joel Anderson.
As a summary of its last year's work, here is a letter from Harold
McClure. its last president:
"About two years ago a man and his wife kneeled in prayer. A
great burden was resting upon them. Having been appointed to the
task of caring for a school in Jorhat, Assam, they were faithfully min-istering
to those under their instruction. There were students coming
in increasing numbers. The burden was, "How shall we care for them?
—The prayer—" Lord, lay it upon the heart of someone to care for
this need." Thousands of miles away, God began working in the hearts
of the faculty and student body of Bethel College.
"This year has past. The evidence of the Lord's working is over
$650 that has come in for the "Bethel in Jorhat" project. May the school
in Assam be blessed and the school in St. Paul be set aflame with the
spirit of an undying passion for the unsaved in every land.
"In the past year one 'matter has disturbed the officers of the
Missionary Band. It is the matter of the membership of the Missionary
Band. Since every Christian should be a missionary and since the
project is "Our Bethel in Jorhat" why not revise the constitution to in-clude
in the membership the whole faculty and student body of Bethel?
"May the barometer of Bethel's missionary zeal continue to rise
until every kindred, tribe, and tongue have been told of Jesus."
THE BETHEL CLARION
A bi-weekly campus newspaper.
BETHEL INSTITUTE
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EDITORIAL POLICY
1. To maintain and promote the Christian principles of Bethel
Institute.
2. To promote scholarship.
3. To foster more school spirit.
4. To establish a better understanding among the students.
Editor-in-chief Barbara Edson
Associate Editor Carol Rexion
Feature Editor Walfred Peterson
Sports Editor Robert Bergerud
Reporters Gloria Anderson, Dorothy Benson, Irene
Benson, Harold Carlson, Carlton Christenson,
Lucille Collin, Joyce Gilbert, Betty Hoff, Esther
Ingebretson, Marian Larsen, Hazel Nelson, F.
Robert Otto, Janet Rye, Kiyoo Shimatsu, Marianne
Schouweiler, Lorna Swanson, Evelyn Sundberg.
Circulation Norma Seaquist
Typist Dorothy Dahlman
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OUQ INQUIQING
PePOQTG2
By Marianne Schouweiler
Question: What is the most profit-able
lesson you've learned this
year at Bethel?
Lorene Janssen: To have an open
mind and an even temper.
Bill Petersen: Say "no" to 90%
of the things people ask you.
Lorna Swanson: It doesn't pay to
study history because you don't
remember any of it anyway.
Julie Ann Erickson: To get up
when the 6:30 bell rings.
Phyllis Gustafson: That it's im-possible
for me to lose weight.
Herb McDonald: The Navy needs
more fliers.
Janet Rye: That experience was
my best teacher (and how!)
Lily Johnson: Live one day at a
time—in the Lord's will.
Phyllis Johnson: The inter-rela-tionship
of all friends of know-ledge
and their relationship to
life.
Howie Olson: Keep my mouth
shut to keep out of trouble.
Russell Taft: I have come to see
more clearly that, if we have the
conviction that we are follow-ing
the course on which the
Lord started us, there is no
problem so great that we are
justified in giving up before we
tackle it—then the way through
surely appears.
Evelyn Sundberg: There's power
in prayer.
Birdell Emmel: Learning to meet
people on their own ground of
interest.
Seminary Meditation
From Here,
Where?
by Melvin Swanson
"Where Do We Go From Here?"
was the title of an address given
to a graduating class by Dr. W. F.
Widen some years ago. AS I think
of leaving Bethel, I am thinking
of the difference there must be be-tween
the forward look of one who
is a follower of the Master and
one who is not. We who are leav_
ing Bethel permanently this spring
do so with some definite feelings
—the kind that seem to force
themselves up into ones throat
and make it hard to swallow. How-ever,
for the Christian the future
is already taken care of, though
he himself does not know much of
God's plan for him. The question
then, for us is not so much where
we are to be next year at this
time, but rather of whether we
have the simple, practical faith
willingness to follow our Guide,
who knows and provides the very
best for us.
Oxenham expresses the thought
of the forward-looking Christian in
the following lines:
"Not for a single day
Can I discern the way;
But this I know,
Who gives the day
Will show the way,
So I securely go."
The Lord has been marvelously
good to me and to all of us at
Bethel this year, yet I am eagerly
anticipating the future as a ser-vant
of a might, wonderful, and
faithful Lord.
Bob Hails: Body exercise profit-eth
little; mental exercise pro-eth
much.
Edna Sahl: The necessity of liv-ing
a consistent Christian life
and the need of personal devo-tions.
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION \
It will be an older campus—that is, a campus with a larger student-age
span and a greater proportion of men and women past twenty. The
smooth-cheeked, cherubic freshmen will be there in his customary
numbers, but his classmates will be veterans whose insights and out-look
have been matured and sometimes warped by Bataan and Guadal-calan,
by Tarawa and Kwajalein and Bizerte and Salerno. There will
be those, too, whose war experiences bound them to a factory bench,
returning to college with a laborer's hands and a self-conscious, twisted
smile for the hour when the ex-soldier and the new freshman ask for
their list of battle honors.
The physically disabled are no strangers to the American campus,
but in reconstruction days we are warned that this minority will swell
in size. We must learn to accept disability and disfigurement without
the second glance or the shudder of pity.
It will be a campus of wide divergences or opinions and of internal
strain. There will be those returning service men who will support the
freshman in his demand for an "ante bellum campus" with every effort
possible made to wipe away the disruptions of the war. "Don't let the
campus change—not in a single aspect:—" many a service man has
written with postalgiai for his pen-pot.
It is likely, however, that this group will not long remain united.
There will be those whose nostalgic longings are satisfied by the return,
and there will be those more common individuals who will find that
anticipation out-ran reality and that the campus evenif perfectly restor-ed
according to the pattern of 1939-40 cannot be the haven of bliss ex-pected.
A new leaven will be on every campus in the veteran who has
grown up under the impact of war. He was half-boy, half man when he
left, but now he is all-man. He has come to value learning. War on
the battle front or the factory line has shown him the necessity of
education, and he is back on his campus to get it. If he is rebel-born,
he will shout his disaffection for the trivialities and the slow-paced pro-cession
of some of our classroom activities, and the side-shows of the
extra-curricular endeavors. If his rebellion is inarticulate, he will stew
and then conform or leave; but in any case, his rebellion will have its
effect.
Here are some of the questions bound to rise on the American
campus of reconstruction days. Many a veteran who has not finished
high school will come knocking at the college gates. Shall he be ad-mitted
contrary to the conventional ruling? Shall he be forced to make
up the work which he is lacking from the high school curriculum? Many
a veteran will return vocational-minded. He will want a job, the best
one in his power to carry, and he will want immediate training for that
immediate job. There are vocational schools and training institutes for
these purposes, but without any doubt the pressure on the liberal arts
college to offer a larger vocational curriculum will be enormous.
Moreover, the orthodox pace of the college is not rapid. With the
geologist's sense of time, the educator does not move quickly—a year to
a course, thirty hours to a major, four years to a diploma. But the
veteran will be in a hurry. He is racing against lost time. ' He will
want short cuts and quick courses. Too, he will be, in all probability,
impatient with the theoretical, the historical, the analytical. Such
courses as he is having in the service are largely courses in specific
skills—two days of intensive training for mastering the fifty-calibre,
anti-aircraft gun. Such courses do not burden him with the history
of gunnery, going back to that uncertain date when gunpowder was
first used. "Leave out the theory, prof, and come on to today's busi-ness."
The campus of reconstruction days will make new demands for
freshened and reinvigorated teaching. Moreover, that campus will
most succeed which is most wisely equipped to do the best and most
thorough job in human counselling. For counselling will be an ab-solute
necessity, not only for the soldier and sailor attempting to re-adjust
himself to civilian life, but for the high school senior facing
a quite different day than that for which his older brother prepared
himself. Wise teaching in the classroom alone will not be enough. It
will be through the personal relations of the instructor and the student
—relations both formal and informal—that the re-adjustments of recon-struction
can be best accomplished. That counselling must begin the
day the student applies for admission and end—even then only tempor-arily—
on the day when the college helps him to find a job. And in
between there will be occasions for all manners and kinds of wise,
friendly counselling—academic, personal, financial, marital, vocational,
and religious.
It will not be an easy campus, the campus of reconstruction days,
for either the teacher or the administrator. But no campus in the en-tire
history of American \education will carry a larger measure of op'
portunity for the making of strong men and women, intelligent, emotion-ally
sturdy, conscious of their responsibility, and equipped with deep
kind of men which the world will rightly demand from the college for
leadership in that period of world reconstruction.
College Reconstruction
From the "At Dennison" by Kenneth Irving Brown, president
of Dennison University, Granville, Ohio.
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Q4cakteil" The Night of May 19th
by Marianne Schouweiler
J. S. What does it stand for? Those are my kid brother's initials,
but to Bethel students it means the formal banquet given each year by
the Freshman class in honor of the Sophomores.
If you have not witnessed the ecstatic excitement at the Girls'
Dorm from 4:30 on as the florists delivered their gray boxes, as some-one
breaks their nicest fingernail, as the phone rings violently, and as
Peggy runs back and forth on second floor wailing, "'When Paulson
comes, my flowers come and not before!" you have missed at
least half the thrill of the occasion.
The nicest part was to walk down the front stairs and be greeted
by a dashing young man. The hardest part was to pin on his bouton-iere.
The part that was most fun was seeing all the girls looking so
pretty and the fellows so proud. The most surprising thing was seeing
all the fellows with close haircuts. The most annoying thing was having
to get in by midnight. The funniest thing was seeing Stan Paulson cut
a button off his vest for each point in Mr. Christenson's address. Our
proudest moments were in seeing the fine job Kay did as M. C.
And did you see the two engaged girls whose fiances are overseas
with the boys' miniatures beside them?
The program certainly wouldn't have been complete without the
. magician's' assistant from Fergus Falls and the return of Kay's dollar.
(Do you know how he did it?)
After the banquet about fifteen couples went to the Y.M.C.A. where
the boys had rented a lounge and put on an impromptu program. The
master of ceremonies changed his tie practically unnoticed between
each act, and "Knop" faithfully blundered each gag. "Muggs" Swanson
was the lone girl on the program, and "The Future Deacons of the
First Baptist Church of Fergus Falls" portrayed "Two Men and an
Overcoat." (Too bAd they don't have Bergerud in Male Chorus.
Although the Freshmen were inexperienced and thus didn't pick a
full moon, the sky was clear. The wind didn't cooperate with the tra-ditional
plans of canoeing on Phalen, but it was mighty nice at Minne-haha
Falls. Taken as a whole and including the banquet theme, one
Plait ioit
In questioning of the graduates
as to their plans for the future,
it was found that most of them
have been rather indefinite as to
their decisions. However, those
in the Seminary have their
churches picked out and some of
them, their wives. A few of the
Seminary students are going out
in trailers if the draft board per-mits.
Among the college graduates,
many are going 'on to the Univ.
Several of the girls are going in
for Nurse's training and one into
the Marine Corps. Most of the boys
are planning on attending the
Seminary next fall and due to
draft board rulings may begin this
summer.
Ztit Aland rif
flit *nu `,31s -4r
"Hush! Hush! Don't say a
word! He's coming down the
stairs." The door opens and
everyone heartily sings "Congratu-lations
to you. Congratulations—s
—s—ah" as in walks Roger
Youngquist. It was not until after
a few fakes that the real persons
arrived for the surprise-shower.
Gladys Peterson and Jack Berg-eson
have definitely decided as to
the last rites, and so appropriately
the Seminary students and teach-ers
decided to put on a party. It
was to be a surprise to both
though Gladys was informed of a
"birthday party" for Knobby. This
intrigue worked, and cooperation
was beautiful, almost too good.
She inviegled Knobby into a walk
after supper to allow time for de-corations
at the boarding club but
she had difficulty in concluding it.
In the meantime things were
progressing with great fervor at
the Seminary. The boys dressed
up, decorations were made, food
was prepared and finally the
guests arrived,—and waited.—The
8:00 starting time drew on to 8:45
before the guests arrived.
Knobby finally left Blombergs
and took Gladys home where Ell-wood
and Maurice picked her up
(unknown to Knobby) and brought
her to the Seminary. She was hid-den
and when Knobby was brought
downstairs by a false pretense she
joined him as he entered the din-ing
hall.
It was a complete surprise to
both and a great deal of enjoy-ment
for the spectators.
The program then proceeded,
under the direction of Francis Mc-
Olash, which consisted of a var-iety
of talents. There were songs
by the male quartet, some amus-ing
poetry by Bob Peterson, a
stunt by Bob Bergerud and Gene
Johnson and some puns by Al
Bergfalk, Dr. Karlson and none
other than Maxine Olson.
Some gifts were presented and
then to end things there, some re-freshments
served.
The moral to this, story—"Go
thou and do Likewise."
Events have taken place fast
and furiously this past month.
First there was the Sem Banquet,
and the girls who attended sure
looked their best that night. What
preparation! "Are my flowers
pinned on straight," said Ruthie
Rask?" "Is my hair combed o.k.?"
asked Janie Larson. And so it
went until all the gals were ready
to go to the banquet, and have
a starlight of an evening.
Then, in the same week came
the Alumni Banquet. The girls
who served as waitresses this
night turned "Dutch" in the cute
little outfits Alice Anderson had
made for them. Charlotte Sandin
and Miriam Quarnstrom were vis-itors
in the dormitory. "Corny,"
as she is called by her pals, has
a new flashy diamond on the third
finger, left hand! In case you
don't know, Earl Johnson is the
lucky fellow.
The third and final banquet of
the year came with the J. S. on
May 19. The dorm was surely in
one grand uproar for this occa-sion.
Gloria Anderson was espec-ially
happy that night for that ex-tra
special someone (Doug Arm-strom)
was home on a furlough.
You sure picked the right time,
Doug!
Now that all this excitement has
passed, the dorm has taken on a
quiet atmosphere. Reason? Final
examinations are here again, and
with them it means that school is
nearly over. Already students are
looking back on happenings of the
year, and the other night while
Alice Olson and Eunice Anderson
were visiting the dorm, and talk-ing
about past events, your report-er
couldn't help but pass a certain
story on to you, knowing that it
would never get in SEM SNAT-CHES,
for the story is about Har-old
Carlson. Harold has fifty . pairs
of socks. First of all he wears
the first twenty-five pair, and then
takes time out to wash them while
he wears the other twenty-five
pair. Now Harold thought that
washing twenty-five pairs of socks
was quite a job, and to get done in
the least possible time, he decided
to put all the socks in the water
together. Well, they ran! "Whew,"
said Harold, "they even run with-out,
feet."
By the way, do you know who
"Gunny-sack" is?
Barbara Edson is taking advant-age
of the nice weather, and can
regularly be seen enjoying that
evening walk with a certain red-head.
Eunice Wood and Betty., Nelson
appreciate the breath of spring too,
and took time out one day last
week for a dip in "-Lake Phalen.
Many dormitory gals have also
been getting their morning exer-cise
on the campus tennis court.
The dormitory girls would like
to take this opportunity to wish
the graduating dorm girls God-speed
and the best of luck in the
new fields that lie ahead. We'll
miss you next year, and don't for-get
we want you to come back and
visit us. Also we say, a hearty
thank you to Mrs. Nylof, our
housemother, and Miss Johnson,
our cook.
leirai4]
this noon just as the "pay-day
whistle" blew I was told someone
was looking for me i turned a-round
and you could have knock-ed
me over with a matrix in walk-ed
Jimmy Nyquist! as you may
or may not know he's in an in-fantry
outfit, has been here for
2 months when A St. P. folded
he was transferred here from
Kansas or some such place
we stuck together like cockle-burrs
on sheeps wool for three
hours while i asked him every
question under the sun he told
me what he knew about the army
poor boy we never had the privil-ege
of maneuvering in dear old
louisiana nor has he tasted oklaho-ma
heat and dust where it never
gets over 120 degrees in the shade
and there is no shade.
so the upshot of it all is that
jimmy threatens to share his clar-ion
with me and no doubt we will
meet no little and quite some as
he lives only a few blocks hence
sayronora
archie
by Harold Carlson
Well, well, another school year
is over. The Seniors have had
their party (ask Paulson) and also
their Systematic Theology exam,
so they are all happy.
It seems that the last week of
school prompts many different
actions. Take for example, Bill
H a ri n g's haircut.
Poor Gene and Bergie! They
came home one night all tired
out, crawled in between the
sheets Uncanny, wasn't it?
Stan Yamashita (Johnson) has
left our fellowship for the Army
life. We're going to miss this
ping pong and also "jiu jitsu" ex-pert.
God bless you, wherever
you go, Stan•.
"This is just like California," ex-claimed
Paul Nagano, as° he was
studying his Old Testamnet Proph-ecy
on the Seminary roof. Yes,
we're sure ritzy around here. Why,
Lloyd Sprecher even serves cold
refreshments every afternoon to
the sun bathers on the roof.
You heard about the Seniors be-ing
"dunked" recently. Well, some
of the Freshmen were "doused"
even more recently. Walking out
of the back door right after lunch
is a dangerous thing to do during
the last week of school. Water,
when thrown from the roof or an
upstairs window seems to have a
tendency to fall towards the
ground. (Ask Wes Seaquist or
Phil Johnson).
It's been a grand and inspira-tional
year for all of us. Let us
remember one another in prayer
as we go out in the Lord's work.
Fent Snatches
by Mabel Anderson
might say it was a ringing success.
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Sports
Question
by Bergie
In What Way Do You Think that
Sport Activities Can be Improved
in Future Years?
Kay Shimatsu:—I would like to
see more equipment in the gym
for gym classes—mats for
wrestling, bars, weights for lift-ing.
Marriane S.—A basketball for the
girls; everytime we want to
play, we have to go and ask
the fellows for a ball, or use an
old "punkin."
C. E.—An intensified program with
as many of the students taking
part in sports that will stay with
them throughout life. A good
tennis court would be a help
toward this, instruction in golf
and tennis early in the fall and
again in the spring.
DoDo B.—School spirit—backing
for all the activities.
Knobby—More emphasis on a de-finite
program of intermural
sports. Include all the students.
Phyl. G.—An organized schedule of
basketball and baseball games
with a little pre-game publicity.
Erick—MORE OF EVERYTHING!
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Bethel "B's"
Awarded
The Bethel "B" was presented
today to the following for a year's
competition in Basketball during
the 1943-44 season: Capt. Bob
Hails, Gordon Thompson, Bob Ot-to,
Maurice Lundh, Clarence Sah-lin,
Carleton Christianson, and
Bill Peterson.
Gene Johnson and Bob Bergerud
received sweaters, each having
earned three letters in basketball
and one in baseball and tennis.
Willis Wessman was awarded a
speater for three years of baseball
and a year of basketball and ten-nis.
Baseball letters also go to Con-well
Anderson, Elwo-od Anderson,
Birdell Emmel, Wilbur Haring, Ce-cil
Lindblom, Wes Lindblom, Bill
Peterson, Clarence Sahlin, Harris
Youngquist, and Roger Young-quist.
This is the closing of the sports
activities for this year. The fel-lows
have worked hard and have
earned their awards.—Nice Going,
Boys'
Larson, Youngquist
Shuffle Board Champs
Dana Larson and Roger Young-quist
were crowned champions of
shuffleboard tournament staged on
the Seminary gymnasium. They
defeated Orville Birch and Arne
Gustafson for the championship.
This is Bethel's first contest of
its kind and we certainly hope it
shall continue on each year.
Wally Peterson defeated Howie
Olson 4-2 in the championship
game in ping gong.
The hand ball tournament has
only reached the semi-final with
Gunnar Hoglund, Dale Bjork, Kay
Shimatsu and Clarence Sahlin still
in the running. (See you next
year! )
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The trip, which was in one case
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W. Wessman. Coach "Hoke"
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Early Morning
Breakfast 'at Como
The fireplace at Como Park was
the scene of three Bethel break-fasts
during the last week of
school.
The Sophomore Breakfast was
sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Carlson on Wednesday, the 24th
at 7:00 A. M. We sophs were well
satisfied with the ham and eggs
fried by C. E.," says Arlene Peter-son.
The Arian Chorus had their last
get-together of the year at the
same fireplace on the following
morning at 6:45 a. m. Pancakes
and bacon was on the menu, pre-pared
by Marie Greene. Dorothy
Dahlman, president of the Chorus
for next year, read devotions.
The Christian Workers Group
had their breakfast on Wednesday
the 31st. The members of C.W.C.
gathered at Como Park at 6:30 for
a feed of bacon and eggs.
As one student has put it.
"These breakfasts not only helped
us wake up on exam mornings, i
but also helped us furnish some
of the fellowship we've been hear-ing
so much of this year."
Indians Journey
To Mankato
The Bethel baseball team took
a trip, the only one of the season,
to Mankato and New Ulm on the
weekend of the 29th and 30th of
April. Friday afternoon they play-ed
Bethany College. Backing Bill
Peterson with a sixteen run as-sault,
the Indians clubbed their op-ponents
into a 16-5 submission.
Molstad pitched for Bethany. Gust-afson
and C. Anderson hit curcuit
clouts for the winners.
Saturday afternoon saw the In-dians
again the victors, with Lu-